Reuters historical calendar - February 18

London, Feb 17 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on February 18 since 1900: 1930 - Clyde William Tombaugh discovered the planet Pluto, working with photographic plates at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

1956 - The French composer Gustave Charpentier died.

1960 - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay agreed to form a Latin American Free Trade Association.

1967 - The American physicist Robert Oppenheimer, widely known as the father of the atomic bomb, died.

1994 - Delegates from 130 countries agreed at a United Nations conference in Geneva on the need to cut greenhouse gas emissions to halt global warming.

1998 - Former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda was formally charged over his alleged role in a coup attempt in October 1997.

1998 - Mya Than Tint, one of Myanmar's (Burma's) most renowned and admired authors, died aged 69.

2000 - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's reformist allies won a stunning victory in parliamentary elections.

2001 - Count Balthazar Klossowski de Rola, French-born realist painter known as Balthus, died aged 92.

2002 - The European Union slapped ''smart sanctions'' on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and decided to pull a team of observers out of the country.

2003 - At least 133 people were killed in South Korea after an arson attack on two crowded subway trains in the city of Taegu, 200 km (120 miles) southeast of Seoul.

2004 - Runaway train wagons laden with a lethal cocktail of fuel and fertilisers blew up in northeast Iran, killing almost 300 people and injuring up to 450.

2004 - The French film director Jean Rouch died. He was widely seen as one of the fathers of ''cinema verite''. His films included ''Jaguar'' and ''Moi, Un Noir''.

2005 - A committee of the UN General Assembly approved a declaration calling on governments to prohibit all forms of human cloning, including techniques used in research on human stem cells.

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